Meet Caltech's 2025 Distinguished Alumni

Author: Quirk, Chris

Published in: Caltech Magazine, Volume 88, Number 2, 2025, pp. 31-35

Part of: Caltech Magazine, Volume 88:2, Fall 2025

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:20260818-233256169

Abstract

Caltech’s annual Distinguished Alumni Awards—the highest honor the Institute bestows upon its graduates—recognize “a particular achievement of noteworthy value, a series of such achievements, or a career of noteworthy accomplishment.” The 2025 luminaries include a trailblazer who helped launch the field of multifunctional structural materials and was one of the first women to graduate from the Institute; a multihyphenate mathematician and medical doctor whose contributions have advanced mathematical physics, biomedical sciences, and science communication; a biochemist whose breakthroughs in sequencing bacteriophage DNA led to technologies that extended millions of lives worldwide; and an influential theoretical and computational chemist whose work has established foundational methods for analyzing chemical interactions.

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